Security Features - Blackberry INTERNET SERVICE Overview

Feature and Technical Overview

Security features

BlackBerry Internet Service security features
Feature
protection for online transactions
email message encryption for integrated
email accounts
instant messaging encryption
encryption of login credentials and
changes to personal information or login
credentials
protection from spam email messages
Description
The BlackBerry® Internet Service uses SSL to increase the security of the connection to mobile
shopping and mobile banking web sites for BlackBerry devices.
The BlackBerry Internet Service encrypts email messages that it sends and receives using SSL
if the external messaging server (POP over SSL, IMAP over SSL, or Microsoft® Outlook® Web
Access) supports SSL encryption. External messaging servers use a standard TCP connection if
an SSL connection is not supported.
The BlackBerry Internet Service encrypts instant messages that it sends and receives over the
SSL connection that the BlackBerry device uses to connect to the instant messaging server, if
the instant messaging server supports SSL encryption
Subscribers with a user name and password protect their data with a password when they log
in to the BlackBerry Internet Service web site. The BlackBerry Internet Service is designed to
encrypt login credential information from the BlackBerry Internet Service login web page using
SSL and sends it using HTTPS. This encryption is designed to protect user names, passwords,
and other BlackBerry Internet Service account information from unauthorized access. This
encryption applies to login credential changes that the subscriber submits after logging in to
the BlackBerry Internet Service web site.
The anti-spam system for the BlackBerry Internet Service uses a reputation scoring system for
IP addresses to evaluate the relative reputation of IP addresses of incoming email messages. If
the anti-spam system determines that the email message is a spam email message, the anti-
spam system blocks the email message before it can reach BlackBerry Internet Service
subscribers.
For additional control of spam email messages, subscribers can create email message filters to
file unwanted email messages or to prevent email messages from being delivered to their
BlackBerry device.
BlackBerry Internet Service features
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